Aprendizagem colaborativa na educação a distância

Abstract

The actual dissertation was developed in the Masters Degree Program in Education, research line 2 - Training and Teaching Practice of the Teaching Professional at the University of West Paulista. Its importance is justified, because today we live in the information society, wrapped in the technological advancement, the pursuit of knowledge has become necessary to each individual, which requires an education more dynamic, reflective and flexible. Distance education can be adopted as an essential tool to enable and mediate the construction of knowledge, as has technological features of interaction that promote collaborative learning between teacher and student working in this mode, who should even have different profiles of working in the classroom mode. The Distance Education Professor should mediate the interaction for knowledge and reflective student to be open to this construction of knowledge. Therefore, this study aimed to understand the process of collaborative learning in distance education, investigating the use of interaction capabilities by the tutor and the student mediator. To attain the objectives proposed, the method adopted was a qualitative approach, which we performed the observation of the platform Moodle, collecting forum posts and semi-structured interviews with research subjects: A tutor mediator and eight students from the first grade of the Bachelors Degree Pedagogy. What they wanted was to analyze and diagnose each document, the influence of teaching tutor mediator in building the students knowledge of EAD in order to understand the process of collaborative learning in distance education, as well as the importance of this professional in these processes. It was concluded that it is of fundamental importance in mediating this professional interaction and stimulation so that collaborative learning occurs.